The world is big and I don't know every country in it. Is there a better life, more attractive country than where I am now? It's something I can't know in advance and anyone who travels also knows that being on holiday somewhere is completely different from actually living there.

I have lived in several countries and each one had its charm especially if you know the right people and don't have to worry about how to get by.

There is a Dutch TV program called: I'm Leaving. It is about people who are going to emigrate, consciously choosing another country. The fact that the program is so successful is not because all those Dutch people are doing so great. The vast majority leave unprepared and think that only the Netherlands is dependent on the rules and laws and that no form ever needs to be completed elsewhere.

Leaving with money, wintering in Spain, Portugal or another warm place is still not the same as actually living there. When it comes down to it, you remain the foreigner. I have heard that from many acquaintances: if you run out of money or refuse to pay other people's bills, you can leave. I already wrote something about this in my article about emigration

I'm trying to remember if there's a place where I think I should have been born. I know that during the first years of my life, I felt related to Native Americans, but around the age of 7-8, that feeling was over.
I never felt at home in the family where I grew up. The word "adoption" wasn't really used, but as a child, I definitely thought my mother wasn't my mother. I couldn't bear her proximity and certainly couldn't hug her after she beat me up. This was the advice I once received, on the basis that my mother would if I did so act 'normally' again.

What if I'm not Native American? By the way, America doesn't appeal to me at all.
Maybe I'm just nothing and don't belong anywhere, although my friend claims it's our gipsy blood that gives us the urge to wander. Maybe she's right and that's why I feel better travelling, sleeping on the roadside or in a hut than in an average house.

After my 'native American' period there was a longing for Eastern Europe, not that of hundreds of years ago, as in the Middle Ages, but still./Since I always feel cold and it feels like the Middle Ages are living in me, it may be in one of the southern, warm countries (one without wet feet) where I should have been born. At least that's how it feels to me. Maybe I was born in France and ended up at the stake.
A 'clairvoyant' once said that I had done something terrible in a past life. I don't think I was an executioner in a concentration camp, perhaps some murderous dictator in a country from the fairy tales of 1001 Nights.

I find it difficult to say where I should have been born or where I would like to have been born. With today's knowledge, I see the world in a completely different light. I try to imagine what my life would be like if I had been born in the highlands of Scotland, the Taiga in Russia or near the jungle in Indonesia or somewhere in the forests of Africa.

As far as food is concerned, I like Surinamese, Indonesian and African cuisine the best. I prefer to eat something spicy, fried banana, fruit and rice (just a bowl of rice is fine). I'm not a potato eater, although I do eat it when it's on my plate.

_{What we see on this painting (or Vincent's sketches) is depressing. I mean this is the dark ages. Ever been there, the poverty, those skinny faces which most likely never smiled in their entire lives. The babies were born in the dark, screaming their lungs into pieces and if not thrown away with the trash. I do not see myself in this family but do respect them. These are the hard working people who brought luxury and richdom to many. Even today people worldwide try to reap the fruits these families never ate.
Note: The painting/picture is public domain.
For more Vincent, sketches and letters see here @solperez might like to pay a visit to the museum.}

I don't like pasta and pizza, so Italy will not be the country of my birth, although I have nothing against wine, especially because according to @patjewell we can easily reach the age of 100 if we drink. Perhaps I was in Italy in a previous life as Emperor Nero?

If I am reborn in the country where I belong, I will never meet @ibesso again unless he will be born as my twin. I hope @pousinha will be born elsewhere too, preferably near to me just like @yaladeeds @sbamsoneu @b-naj @elian23khan @nsijoro and @grebmot. We all can meet up with @el-nailul and hopefully @aminasafdar and @rokhani at the crazy party for storytellers @ibesso is going to organize outdoors. Stories around a campfire without a mobile phone. With a bit of luck @dove11 and @weisser-rabe will fly by and we all find out we are born in the land of our Dreams.

Japan is not be the country where I should have been born. Perhaps it was once China, but without the Second World War, it would have been Indonesia or one of the Netherlands Antilles.

P.s. The position for storyteller is still available.

6-4-2024
Header: Canva
Photos: taken by me


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